Marc Raimondi’s first year that covers the Falcons was 2024, but it was not his first year in ESPN. He joined the company in 2019 and was a sports combat sports reporter. He also covered the professional struggle and wrote the book “Di hello to the bad: how the new world order of Pro Wrestling changed from America”, which was published by Simon & Schuster in 2025. Raimondi also worked for the New York Post and Newsday, from 2009, covering secondary and university sports, in addition to the NFL, NFL, MLB and NHL.
Kirk Cousins does not go anywhere, at least for now.
The Atlanta Falcons kept the veteran field marshal on their list after 4 pm et on Saturday, which caused the guarantee of a $ 10 million list bonus in 2026.
Cousins was banking in week 16 by the Falcons after a section with nine interceptions and only a TouchDown pass in five games. Atlanta announced at that time that the rookie Michael Penix Jr., the number 8 selection in the 2024 Draft would be the field marshal of the “Advance” team.
It seemed that the Falcons and the cousins would separate after the season. However, the general manager of the Falcons, Terry Fontenot, said at his season end of the season that they were “comfortable” in the future with Cousins, 36, like his substitute field marshal.
Many thought I was positioning, that the Falcones were looking to maintain the commercial value of the cousins. But a source of the league told ESPN that the most likely scenario at this time is that Cousins use an Atlanta uniform in 2025. Of course, that could change if an attractive commercial offer appears.
Falcons owes Cousins $ 27.5 million by 2025, whether they maintain or release it, so from a commercial sense, holding it as Penix’s backup, although it makes sense very at a very highly high price. The $ 10 million list bonus that is guaranteed on Saturday is by 2026, and if Cousins is no longer in the team, Falcons are subject to compensation. Atlanta clings to him now bide the time of the organization to work in a trade.
On the part of Cousins, he wants to be a head of the NFL field next season, and has been frustrated by the current situation, a league source said.
According to a report by Sports Illustrated, Cousins requested and was awarded a meeting with the owner of the Falcons, Arthur Blank, last week. Atlanta did not confirm the report.
Cousins was also caught by surprise last year when the Falcons wrote Penix in the first round as his apparent heir.
If the hawks changed it, the cousins would have to clear any agreement. It has a non -trade clause.
The NBA calendar on Saturday brings a list of eight games, with Celtics vs. Nets opening the action at 6 PM ET and Nuggets vs. Wizards that close the curtain at 9 pm et. The National Court goes to Knicks in Warriors at 8:30 pm et while New York seeks to win its third consecutive game on a road trip on the west coast. Jalen Brunson (ankle) remains for New York, leaving the annotation load to Karl-Anthony Towns and Og Anunoby. The latest support lines of the NBA of Fanduel Sportsbook List the points/minors of Towns for points at 23.5, while Anunoby at 18.5.
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Curry has not overcome three rebounds in its last three games, and the model sees this as a low purchase opportunity. In the previous four games, he averaged 4.75 per game. In the season, he is averaging 4.4 rebounds. The Warriors play Knicks in what should be a competitive game that keeps curry on the floor for 30 minutes or more, which gives it a great opportunity to return to their rebound standards. The model projects it to register 4.6 rebounds, which makes it a value to -125 in Draftkings Sports Librilla.
Harmanpreet Kaur has praised the struggle spirit of the Mumbai Indians after the severe pressure of Delhi Capitals resisted on his way to an eight -run victory in the WPL 2025 final. It was the second title of me in three seasons of the tournament.
“The way we played today, we fight to the last ball, although we did not start the way we wanted,” said Harmanpreet, who was also the game player for his 44 ball 66, in the presentation. “But I think it’s about being there, doing the right things again and again, and that is what we were thinking and we were trying [to do]”
Harmanpreet reached the fold with my 14 for 2 in fifth place, and proceeded to make 89 races with Nat Sciver-Brunt, who limited a winning season of the tournament player with another excellent complete exhibition, scoring 30 and collecting 3 by 30.
“It was not easy when I went to Bat, but I thought if I stay there and I still turn the strike, when Nat is there I need to have too much pressure because he has been in a great touch and was doing the job for the team,” Harmanpreet said. “I just wanted to support her at that time, and I think the association with NAT was incredible. We tried to keep things simple and easy and who took risks calculated at that time.”
In spite of everything, I only established a 150 target, which Harmanpreet felt that it was not enough given the batting force of DC. But Sciver-Brunt and Shabnim Ismail gave me the perfect beginning in their defense, collecting a wickt each in the power game.
“I think 150 was not a decent total [against] DC, but the games like that are always pressure games: 150 in this type of games it always looks like 180. I think the credit is for our bowling players. They believed the belief that they can give us advances in the power game. It was good to see Ismail bring important wicks for us, and the other side how Nat threw himself. They created that opportunity for us and gave us [into] The game, very happy with the way everyone played today. “
One of Mumbai’s great strengths this season has been the bolus quartet abroad proven from Ismail and all SCIVER-BRUNT, Amelia Kerr and Hayley Matthews rodeators. However, there is still other less experienced bowling players to deliver four overs, and Harmanpreet was full of praise to Amanjot Kaur, Sanskriti Gupta and Saika Ishaque for doing this role when necessary. In the final, Ishaque took 1 for 16 of his first three overs before Marizanne Kapp pursued her in an expensive room.
“We leave things very clear to everyone [before the season]”Harmanpreet said.” We had very good individual meetings in which we tried [clarify] His roles for the team. We knew that we have four experienced bowling players, they can do the job for [us] But it is a T20 and [the other] Four overs are always important. We knew that whoever is in the game that day, we will try to give them that opportunity to do the job for us.
“Today Saika was there, she did a great job for us, she launched those three crucial overs for us. Before Amanjot was there and among Sanskrit she did a very good job for us. They knew their role, they knew that when they are there they had to deliver in the best way. I really enjoy playing with them.”
Lanning: “One more association may have given us a chance”
For DC, a third final in three seasons ended with a third defeat, but his captain Meg Lanning did not see any pattern running for the three defeats.
“We have not been able to put our best performances on the board in the final, which is disappointing, but that is the cricket,” he said. “It is not anyone’s fault. We entered here as prepared as we could be as we could, and it simply has not happened for us. It has been different every time.
“We are bitterly disappointed, we feel that we get in a good position to win, but that is the game. You want some, you lose something, and unfortunately we have been on the wrong side.”
Lanning felt that 150 was persecutive, and one more association could have taken DC on the line.
“We don’t gather it with the bat,” he said. “I thought that chasing 150 was a very good goal for us, and only one more association for a couple of overs could have given us a chance. But very proud of the group, we put a good season, we had some really good moments, but yes, we are all quite disappointed.”
DC led the league table, but this meant that about eight full days after their last game came to the final. Lanning did not believe that this made a significant difference in the way it was the final.
“I’m not sure. Some people will say that Mumbai could be tired, so you can’t win these things. I don’t think there is a correct or incorrect way to do it. It’s about working well at night, and Mumbai was too good for us tonight.”
Atlanta Falcons will continue to pay Kirk Cousins, for now anyway. The Falcons will not launch the cousins before a deadline of the list of 4 pm et on Saturday that guarantees that the veteran field marshal will receive a bonus from the $ 10 million list in 2026 of Atlanta, confirms Jonathan Jones Jonathan Jones (informed by ESPN).
Cousins is still three years old in a four -year agreement and $ 180 million last season. The Falcons have $ 155 million in a remaining total dollars in the agreement, but they can leave the agreement after 2026. Cousins has a guaranteed salary $ 27.5 million by 2025 and a pro -trratized signature bonus of $ 12.5 million, which makes its limit a number of $ 40 million.
The teams expected the Falcons to release cousins before this list deadline, but Cousins transport $ 65 million in CAP dead as a cut prior to June 1. The dead limit is $ 40 million if Cousins is designated as a cut after June. Falcons could still exchange cousins if they can find a commercial partner, but if released, the $ 10 million list bonus for 2026 would still be paid.
Cousins was sent at the end of last season in favor of Michael Penix Jr., who the Falcons surprisingly selected in the first round of the Draft the same year in which they signed the cousins of their mega agreement. In the last five openings of Cousins last season, he completed 62.7% of his passes with only one touchdown to nine interceptions. The Falcons were 1-4 in those openings.
Cousins launched for 3,508 yards last season with 18 TouchDowns at 16 interceptions and a passer rating 88.6. His 16 interceptions were tied for league leadership.
If the Falcons are going to go from the cousins, they have more time to find a commercial partner with the bonus of the list paid. The intention was always to keep the cousins beyond this deadline.
With a capacity of 32,944, Pride Park is the largest stadium that has ever organized a final of the Women’s League Cup.
Chelsea’s captain, Millie Bright, said the players “are really fortunate” to play in such a place, but agreed that the launch was not up to the height of an important final.
“It’s an incredible stadium, but when you get to a final, you expect much more quality of the field,” he said.
“It is disappointing, it is a massive game, a mass of the mass cup and, as you can see in the state of the field, I suppose it was not seen too well on television. It also interrupts the game a bit.”
Saturday’s game was the first of the four games in 12 days between both sides, with two quarter -final ties of the Champions League and a WSL meeting.
Nick Cushing, who took the interim position of Manchester City on Monday after Gareth Taylor was fired, agreed that the field condition was not ideal.
“I would like the launch to be a little better,” he said. “It is what it is.”
Former England player Rachel Brown-Finnis, Fara Williams and Ellen White felt that the launch played a role in the type of football that could be played.
Williams said: “There is a real bobble, the field is really cutting.
“It is not a great quality for the football we want to see.
“But Chelsea played the conditions. We talked about the field, Chelsea used it for her advantage. They didn’t play enough football but they adapted.”
The former Brown-Finnis goalkeeper was even more scathing, saying: “The launch looks quite poor and is not appropriate by a final of the Women’s League Cup.
Kyle Juszczyk of Nine Pro Bowl will return to the San Francisco 49ers in a two -year contract and $ 8 million, a source told Adam Schefter of ESPN on Saturday.
It had been a brief division, since the 49ers threw Juszczyk on Tuesday before bringing him back to the fold. Juszczyk, 33, and the 49ers had separated almost the last season before they accepted a salary cut.
A source said Juszczyk took less than the Pittsburgh Steelers were offering to return to San Francisco.
A fans’s team and favorite, the return of Juszczyk was held in Instagram’s stories by the Christian McCaffrey corridor and the closed wing George Kittle.
Juszczyk was one of the first free agents whom the 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan, and general manager John Lynch signed after taking charge in 2017.
He has been appointed for the Pro Bowl after each of his eight seasons in San Francisco, and was the first All-Pro team in 2023 and the second team all-re-team in 2024. He has run for 212 yards and five touchdowns in 60 hauls and caught 184 passes for 1,895 yards and 13 scores in his time with the team.
A fourth round of the Baltimore Ravens in the 2013 Draft, Juszczyk has 378 receptions for 2,664 yards and 18 touchdowns in his career. It has rushed for 237 yards and six touchdowns.
KEVIN DURANT LOOKED around PHX Arena during the March 4 home game against the LA Clippers and saw a lot of people having a “terrible time.” The Phoenix Suns, losers of 11 of their previous 14, had given up 41 points in the second quarter and trailed by 19 entering the fourth.
The first three quarters had encapsulated the season so far for the Suns, who must make up ground just to qualify for the play-in despite the highest payroll in NBA history. Disappointment, drama and dysfunction. Durant later downplayed his first-quarter sideline clash with coach Mike Budenholzer, portraying the animated argument stemming from a disagreement regarding offensive strategy as evidence of how much they care about righting the ship, but it was perceived in the moment as further proof of a disconnected Phoenix squad falling apart.
The fourth quarter, though, provided a glimpse of why hope still flickers for this edition of the Suns in Phoenix, at least throughout the team’s new $100 million downtown headquarters. Durant led a flurry of scoring that cut the deficit to 10 — waving his arms to whip the crowd into a frenzy at that point — before sealing the comeback.
Maybe that rally for a desperately needed comeback win over the Clippers will be a symbolic start of the Suns salvaging their season.
“I like that analogy,” brash billionaire owner Mat Ishbia told ESPN a couple of days later. “I’m going to use that with Coach when I talk to him.”
The Suns have lost three of the four games since.
“So what’s the reason?” Ishbia said, rhetorically asking why the Suns have fallen so far short of expectations. “I don’t have the answer. If I had the answer, I’d fix it right now.
“I still believe in our team. I still believe in Coach Budenholzer. I believe in the guys we have. And at the same time, at the end of the season, if we don’t get to where we expect to get to, I’ll have enough data and evidence that it didn’t work or it did work. And then we’ll make decisions based on that.”
Ishbia’s fingerprints have been all over the Suns’ aggressive, expensive roster makeover during his 25 months in charge, beginning with pulling off the blockbuster trade for Durant as the ink was drying on his deal to buy the franchise for $4 billion. The Suns made a conscious decision to blow past the salary cap’s second apron in the new collective bargaining agreement — and the roster-building handcuffs that come with that territory — when they persuaded Bradley Beal to waive his no-trade clause to accept a deal sending him to Phoenix from Washington in June 2023.
The Suns put together the priciest star trio in the NBA — homegrown franchise cornerstone Devin Booker, Durant and Beal are all on maximum contracts — and didn’t get a single playoff win to show for it last season, when the Minnesota Timberwolves swept Phoenix in the first round.
Coach Frank Vogel was fired after his first season on the job, a year after Ishbia dismissed Monty Williams. A series of injuries to each of the stars, preventing them from establishing chemistry, was a reasonable excuse, although the Suns have been relatively healthy this season. Phoenix’s brass believed it addressed its primary roster flaw by signing steady point guard Tyus Jones in free agency.
But the Suns have taken a step back this season, sitting six games behind .500 and in 11th place in the West standings with 16 games remaining in the regular season, beginning with Friday’s road date in Sacramento. February was especially miserable in Phoenix, as the Suns went 3-10 in a month in which Beal and Durant dealt with the distraction of being involved in trade discussions leading up to the Feb. 6 deadline. Budenholzer has had friction with multiple players, including Booker, sources said.
“It’s been a really disappointing year. Very disappointed,” Ishbia said. “There’s not a person in the organization that doesn’t feel that way. We had high expectations. We felt really good about where going into the season and we’ve not met any of those expectations. We’ve been well below what we all expected, and it’s not anything close.”
In his next breath, Ishbia reiterated that a postseason bid is still within the Suns’ reach.
“If we get in the playoffs, I don’t think that we’re an easy out for anybody,” Ishbia said.
And if they don’t, Phoenix’s front office will again explore all sorts of potential personnel scenarios as the Suns search for solutions while operating under Ishbia’s “all-in” mandate. According to Ishbia, a “pivot and reload” around Booker could be the direction the franchise chooses this summer. The futures of Beal and Durant in Phoenix are uncertain after the Suns engaged in trade discussions involving them before this year’s deadline. The belief within the front office is that the Suns aren’t as far away from contending as the standings indicate.
As a source close to Ishbia said, “For better or worse, there’s no ‘trust the process’ to Mat Ishbia.”
THERE IS ONE absolute certainty as the Suns approach what might be a summer of major change: Booker will not be traded.
Never mind that there are plenty of rival executives who would advise Ishbia and the Suns to consider listening to offers, specifically from the Houston Rockets, who control a significant chunk of Phoenix’s future first-round capital (2025 swap rights, 2027 and 2029 picks, all unprotected) via a deal with the Brooklyn Nets. Sources have told ESPN that the Rockets have repeatedly expressed interest in Booker, a 28-year-old star who fits Houston’s timeline, and that those conversations have been brief.
“Never happen,” Ishbia said, interrupting the question. “It’s silly. So here’s what I’ll tell you: I have Devin Booker in the prime. In order to win an NBA championship, you got to have a superstar. You got to have a great player.”
Nor will Booker request a trade, regardless of how the Suns finish this season. Booker says he is fully committed to spending his entire career in Phoenix, sharing that vision with Ishbia and the Suns’ lead executives, CEO Josh Bartelstein and general manager James Jones.
Booker endured four years in or near the West basement to begin his career, averaging more than 60 losses while playing for four head coaches in those four seasons. The Suns made a leap to mediocrity in the first year under Williams, when Booker made his All-Star debut, and were two wins away from a title the following season. After getting a peek at the top of the mountain in 2021, Booker is determined to complete that climb in a Suns uniform.
“I mean, it’s a rare breed,” Booker told ESPN, wearing a T-shirt with his idol Kobe Bryant’s Black Mamba logo as he explained after a recent shootaround why playing for only one franchise is so important to him. “I take pride in the community in Phoenix, the people that have supported me since I was 18 when things were ugly. And the people that are with us, we just fell short of accomplishing what we want. So I want to do it, and I want to do it here.
“That’s the responsibility of being a franchise player, and I wear that with honor. So it might not look the most pretty right now, but we got to get it done and I’m going to do it.”
Ishbia acknowledges that positioning the Suns to realistically pursue their championship ambitions will probably require some roster remodeling around Booker.
It’s insulting to Ishbia to suggest that a patient rebuilding process might be in the best interest of the Suns, who have given up control of their own first-rounders through 2031 under his watch.
“It’s surprising to me that other people, other fans, they actually like the rebuild process,” Ishbia said, disdain dripping from his voice as the final word of that sentence comes out of his mouth. “Like, ‘Oh, let’s rebuild it.’ Are you crazy?! You think I’m going to go for seven years and try to get there? You enjoy the 2030 draft picks that we have holding? I want to try to see the game today. I want us to win today, and we’re going to try.
“Although let’s say this doesn’t work, guess what? Maybe next year we won’t be as good, but we’re going to try again. The next opportunity we have, we’re going to try to win and compete. And it will work. We will win championships here in Phoenix. Might not be this year, but I promise you we are going to do it. And that’s what we’re focused on.”
Barring a drastic late-season turnaround for the Suns, there is anticipation around the league that Phoenix will entertain trade offers for Durant again this summer.
“I’ll just say that we’re going to evaluate in the offseason,” Ishbia said. “We’re going to find a way to win, and it’s probably a lot easier winning with Kevin Durant than without him. But at the same time, yes, if we’re not good enough in this iteration of the Phoenix Suns, we’re going to find a way to be better next year. “
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Possible trade deals for Kevin Durant
Kevin Pelton details the potential trade packages the Suns could receive for Kevin Durant.
DURANT WAS CAUGHT off guard when he was the subject of trade talks in the days leading up to this season’s deadline, including a proposed deal with the Golden State Warriors that died after Durant made it clear he wasn’t in favor of a midseason reunion with his former team.
The Suns had also discussed frameworks of potential Durant trades with the Timberwolves, Miami Heat and Rockets, according to league sources, some of whom also mentioned the New York Knicks as a potential fit. Rockets sources told ESPN their discussions with Phoenix were initiated by the Suns.
“When you’re not winning and you’re not winning the way you want, you’ve got to look at everything,” a Suns source told ESPN. “For us with him, it was, how do we make sure that we’re optimizing Devin and building to make you successful now but also in the future. And Kevin’s had an amazing year. He’s had an amazing stretch here. He’s playing really, really good basketball, but there’s always been conversation with everyone on our team minus Devin Booker.
“As we talked about it, then teams call us because they’re interested because it’s Kevin Durant, we’re not in a position not to look at everything. We have to be creative.”
League sources said that Durant and Rich Kleiman, the 15-time All-Star’s agent and business partner, would be consulted on any trade discussions involving him this summer. Durant has one season remaining on his contract and would be eligible to sign a two-year, $122 million extension with a team that acquires him, providing him significant power to influence a potential trade destination.
“I want my career to end on my terms — that’s the only thing,” Durant said on “The Draymond Green Show” in the aftermath of the trade deadline. “That’s the only thing I’m worried about. ‘Cause I see a lot of dudes that don’t get that opportunity, so I want to keep putting in that work to make that choice on my own.”
Durant declined further comment on the situation when approached by ESPN, saying it is “already noisy as hell” and he didn’t want to add to that. His professionalism, focus and competitiveness in the wake of the trade deadline have been noted and appreciated throughout the Suns franchise.
Beal dealt with hearing his name in trade rumors for most of the first half of the season, despite still possessing his no-trade clause, as the Suns unsuccessfully attempted to find a pathway to trade for Jimmy Butler. He was also demoted to a bench role in early January, returning to the starting lineup Feb. 22, when the Suns snapped a four-game losing streak by beating the Chicago Bulls.
The role change prompted speculation that the demotion was intended to make Beal disgruntled enough to accept a midseason trade, but team sources are adamant that utilizing Beal as a sixth man was purely a basketball strategy decision.
Nevertheless, Beal admits that he has felt disrespected at times by the Suns this season.
“I’m human, so I have to really take a step back and just kind of look at the big picture,” Beal told ESPN. “And my biggest thing is when I came here I want to win. I’ve scored 30 points a game. I’ve been an All-Star. I’ve been All-NBA. I want to win. That’s always been my label — I haven’t won anything. So whatever that looks like for the team, whether that’s me coming up the bench, whether it’s me starting, whether it’s me, whatever it is, I’m going to do it. Do I agree with it? Hell, no, but I’m not going to be that guy.
“I enjoy the game, man. This game is fun. I try not to let nobody take the joy out of it for me. It’s very hard. It’s hard. We’re all human beings, man. We have every right to shut down. We have every right to question what’s going on. You have every right to say, ‘Why me?’ But I feel like that just drags you down a little bit more than you need. I’m still playing in the NBA, I still have the best job in the world, and I still have my no-trade clause. So I’m smiling every day.”
Like Durant, Beal had no interest in having his life uprooted with a midseason trade. But Beal, whose longtime agent, Mark Bartelstein, is the Suns CEO’s father, is open to considering other possibilities this offseason.
“It is a different deal in the summer,” Beal said. “Everything is kind of more laid out on the table. You got more options.”
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How did it all go wrong for the Suns?
Kevin Pelton joins “Nothing But Net” to break down what’s gone wrong for the Suns this season.
DAYS AFTER PHOENIX’S 2023-24 season ended in a first-round sweep, Ishbia defiantly declared that the Suns had “enough talent to win a championship,” a claim he believed again entering this season. He also insisted during that news conference that 26 of the other 29 NBA general managers would swap situations with the Suns — roster, future draft picks and all — a statement that was mocked around the league within minutes of Ishbia saying it.
“Not based on our season this year, right?” Ishbia said this month when asked if he still thinks that is true.
Ishbia didn’t double down on his 26 of 29 take, but he didn’t back all the way off, either. He downplayed the perception that the Suns are stuck in basketball purgatory due to trading as many of their future first-round picks as possible and have roster-building restrictions due to being so far over the salary cap and into the luxury tax.
“The thing is, I feel really good about our organization, the franchise, the basketball,” Ishbia said. “If we had won 15 more games than we won right now, I’d feel amazing about it all, but I feel that we’re in a great position in Phoenix.”
At this point, the Suns’ position puts them in serious jeopardy of sending a lottery pick to the Rockets in the upcoming draft. Phoenix is 2½ games behind the injury-ravaged Dallas Mavericks for the West’s final play-in spot.
“But [the season is] not over yet, so that’s kind of my mindset,” Beal said. “I’m always going to be the naive guy. I played in D.C. for 11 years, so naive is kind of my middle name. We still haven’t played our best basketball. … We have the toughest [remaining] schedule in the league, too, so it’s a good challenge for us. Either we can s— or get off the pot.”
Ishbia added that his analysis of the Suns’ favorable positioning among NBA franchises included the consideration that most GMs would enjoy having “access to an owner that does not worry about how much we’re spending and is willing to recruit people.” But Ishbia is aware that he has been accused by rivals and the media of having “new owner syndrome,” which is a way of saying he makes impulsive, splashy decisions instead of taking a patient approach.
Ishbia and some members of the Suns’ front office consider that an unfair portrayal. Ishbia, a feisty former walk-on guard at Michigan State, is responsible for Phoenix’s win-now philosophy and financing it. He approves all personnel decisions, but he does not dictate them or make moves that aren’t advised by his basketball operations staff.
“People like to say, ‘Oh, he’s too involved.’ What?” said Ishbia, who splits his time between Phoenix and Pontiac, Michigan, where the headquarters of his family’s United Wholesale Mortgage are located. “Honestly, you think I watched film on the players we’re drafting? They say, ‘We like Ryan Dunn.’ I say, ‘OK, how do we get him?’ I don’t watch film, I don’t interview the player. It’s just silly what people talk about.”
Ishbia considers it his obligation as an owner to “give the best resources, give the support, make sure that we make it a destination in Phoenix, create a great fan experience.” He feels that he is doing all of those things, from making the nine-figure investment in the franchise’s new headquarters to slashing concession prices. And he’s paying more than $450 million, including luxury tax, for this season’s roster.
“I’m not sparing dollars,” Ishbia said. “Fans don’t care what a luxury tax bill is. They care that I care and I’m trying to help us win, and I’m giving the GM and the CEO and the coach and the players all the resources to win. And I think that’s something that a lot of GMs and a lot of basketball people would really relish the opportunity to be part of.”
But right now? Phoenix’s middling results, along with Ishbia’s bold, brash style, have made the Suns subject to ridicule.
“It’s easy to take shots,” Ishbia said. “And I guess the biggest thing is when you put yourself out there — which I will always do, so you can have fun with this for a long time — when you put yourself out there and saying you want to win and be the best and you don’t, people really enjoy when you don’t. So that’s what’s happened. We haven’t been where we wanted to be.
“I could have come in with low expectations, say, ‘Hey, in the next five years, we’re going to try to build this the right way. In eight years, maybe we’ll win a championship.’ I came in and said, ‘Let’s try to win now.’ And guess what? I’ll say that again next year and the year after, and one of these years we’re going to win it.
“And I’m not just ruling out this year, but at the same time it has not been good this year, and we know that here.”
ShakeDelhi capitals chose the bowl vs. Mumbai Indians
The currency landed in favor of Meg Lanning and Delhi Capitals chose to play against the Mumbai Indians led by Harmanpreet Kaur in the WPL 2025 final. It was in line with the winning captains of launches that chose to persecute Brabourne Stadium, despite the fact that the teams have successfully defended the totals in each of the last four games Mumbai.
DC will play only his second game in the last 15 days, after having played his last League match on March 7. They brought the left arm spinner Shree Charani instead of the rapid player Titas Sadhu. Dew has not had a massive presence in Mumbai and that could be the reason why DC opted for an additional spinner, given the line with my right hand.
In a repetition of the WPL 2023 final, my entered the faith without changes and replacement in Saika Ishaque, who has launched only four overs in two appearances this season. They also continued with Yastika Bhatia, who is expected to open the batting despite going through a thin race.
The central tone was in use for the last WPL 2025 game, with both almost equidistant square limits.
Actress Ashly Burch has responded to the leaked images of AI Aloy, who made the rounds earlier this week.
The images in question showed a Sony employee related to an AI version of the horizon leader. The employee made AI YOY a series of questions, such as “how are you”, to which the character replied that he was fine, but “deal with sore throat”, before sharing a little horizon.
Now, Burch, who along with starring as Horizon’s Aloy has appeared in a series like Life is Strange, Borderlands and The Last of Us, has shared his thoughts about the filtered images.
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“I saw the demonstration of technology earlier this week,” Burch said in a shared video in his social channels, adding that Horizon Guerrilla developer had been in contact with her to tell her that “demonstration did not reflect anything that was actively in development.”
Meanwhile, Sony “did not use any of [Burch’s] Performance “for demonstration”. So none of my facial or voice data, “Aoy’s actress said.” Guerrillas has Aloy as a character. “
But still, “I feel worried,” Burch continued. “I am not worried about guerrillas, or Horizon, or my performance, or my career specifically, even. I feel worried about this form of art.
Burch continued talking about the current SAG-AFTRA attacks, of which AI is a large part of the discussion. “We are asking for protections,” Burch said. “From what we are fighting is that you must obtain our consent before making a version of AI in any way. You have to compensate us fairly and you must tell us how you are using this double AI.”
Burch added that he does not feel worried because technology exists, or even because playgrounds want to use it, reasoning “of course they do, they always want to use technological advances.”
“I imagine that a video like this that has the performance of someone attached. That has the voice, face or movement of someone. And the possibility that if we lose this fight, that person will have no resource,” said the actress. “They would not have any protection. Any way of defending themselves.
“And that possibility … makes me very sad. My heart hurts. It scares me.”
Image credit: Guerrilla/Eurogamer
Burch declared that he loves this industry and the form of creative art. She wants “there to be a new generation of actors”, and that there are “so many incredible game performances” of those actors.
“I want to continue, do this job, and if we don’t win, then that future is really committed,” Burch said. “I am not really trying to put any playground specifically in Blast, certainly not guerrillas, because again, I do not believe … Technology is not the problem. game companies that wish to use technology is not the problem. The problem is that we are currently on strike and the negotiation group will not accept to give us common sense protections.”
Burch closed stating that he supports the strike, and has always done so. “Fighting is what we have to do to protect the future and longevity of this race that we all love so much.”
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The AI remains a hot topic and several video game developers have flirted with technology. Last month, Microsoft announced Muse’s announcement, a new “generative advance of the” designed to help “game ideation.” Also in February, Take Two Interactive Boss Strauss Zelnick opened on his views on AI, calling the concept of artificial intelligence “an oxymoron.”
Meanwhile, the activation owned by Microsoft was recently criticized for its use of generative, admitting that a content in the game in Call of Duty has been created using technology.
The Star Wars Studio Bit Reactor and Jedi strategy game: Survivor’s Respawn will be revealed next month, it has been confirmed.
On Saturday, April 19, the couple will appear on the Star Wars Celebration stage in Tokyo, Japan, where they will offer the first look at their “Star Wars Bass tactics game.”
Little is known about the game, which was announced along with the Respawn shooter and the third entry into the Star Wars Jedi franchise.
The strategy game is developing through a production collaboration with BIT Reactor, which is a new study formed by veterans of Xcom and civilization Studio Firaxis Games. Respawn is producing the last Star Wars strategy game, while Bit Reactor leads the development of the title.
In a statement published last year together with the announcement of almost 700 layoffs of the entire company, the president of EA Entertainment, Laura Miele, said that after a review, he had decided that the reappearance should focus on the Jedi series and Apex Legends.
Another Star Wars game was announced in 2022, led by the former veteran of Lucasarts and cooker of the Hirschmann Honor Medal, was canceled.
“The unique ability to breathe to connect with players and create exceptional game experiences is unmatched in entertainment,” Malle said in a statement. “As we have seen the Respawn portfolio in recent months, what is clear is that the games that our players are most excited are the rich Jedi and Respawn brand library.
“Knowing this, we have decided to get away from early development in a Star Wars FPS action game to focus our efforts on new projects based on our own brands while providing support for existing games.”
